The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-08

The coinage at the United States minis
last month was S., 500, $50, of which s.. 900,-
600 was standard silver dollars.
The principal witness against Mrs. Hat
tie Penseyres, who is on trial at Buffalo for
the murder of her husband, is her son.
A great number Of people have already
left Key West for Northern points, on ac-
count of the prevalence of yellow fever.
John Connolly, drunken miner, Friday
shot and killed Mr.. John Stoddard at Brace
vile, Ill, after which he committed sui
eide.
Coffee is still booming. The best Rio ad-
vanced Friday in Chicago to 23% cents
pound, and the best Mandahling to 29E
cents.
Lannie McAfee, the well-known bill
HARDEST, who jumped from the window of
hotel at Minneapolis, died from his in
juries.
Judge FolIett, of Grand Rapids, whose
sudden disappearance has been reported,
proves to be a defaulter to the extent of
$4,000.
Later advices show that five persons we're
killed and sixty injured during the panic
of Wednesday IN the cathedral at Chi
huahua.
Affairs in Afghanistan have become seri-
Gus. The garrisons of Herat and Balkh
have been sent to reinforce the troops in
the field.
The three Pinkerton men indicted for
| killing a boy at Jersey City during the
labor troubles in January last have been
acquitted.
Morris Marks, who killed a woman at
New York by throwing vitriol over her, has
been sentenced to twenty years in the
| State prison.
Mrs. Wileman, once convicted of the
murder of her husband at Little Valley,
| n. Y, and sentenced to be hanged, was on
second trial acquitted.
Several hundred thousand dollars have
| been contributed toward the erection of a
| Protestant Episcopal Cathedral at New
York to cost $6,000.0O
The public debt statement shows a re-
ductioH during May of S., SS9,997. The Let
| debt is 81, 800, 233, 154, and the surplus in
| the treasury is 500, 951 ,692.
/ Charles B. PARCEL, manager of the Hall
Safe and Lock Company at San Francisco,
| is defaulter for $50, 900. He was "a prom
inent church member" and he ''specu-
lated"
La France declares that the number OF
| lives actually lost in the Theater Comique
fire at Paris exceeds 200, and accuses the
authorities of keeping the facts from the
public,
The detectives on the safe robbery OF the
| Office of Treasurer of Logan County, Ar
kansas, have implicated Deputy County
Treasurer and four other young men, all
well connected.
The bill to suppress 'bucket shops has
passed the Illinois Legislature, and only
awaits the Governors signature to become
a law. Bucket shop proprietors will con.
test it in the courts,
Another operation will be performed
upon Crown Prince Frederick Williams
throat next week. DR.. Mackenzie reiter-
ates that there is no cancer, and that tn
trouble can be removed.
shortage of $40, 900 is alleged in the
| fur DIS of the Dakota Insane Asylum. A.
E Colbey, former trustee, is held princi-
pally responsible, though other members
are declared not guiltless.
Seven men were instantly killed and six
badly injured by premature explosion of
dy Mantle at the Cambria Company's stone
| qUaTries at Birmingham, Pa, Saturday.
Some of the injured will die.
Light receipts of cattle at the Chicago
stock-yards last week have resulted in an
advance of 50 cents per 100 pounds, prime
beeves selling Saturday for 1910. Hogs
remain steady, but sheep have declined %
/ to 40 cents under large receipts.
| Bismarck has accepted the ukase restrict
| ing foreigners rights in Russia. He had
| promised Austria he would not do so, and
the latter Government has in consequence
| recalled its ambassador from Berlin.
/ Dan Fulton, whose wife was house
keeper for Alex. Holmes, who lived near
0wosso, Mich, got drunk Saturday, and,
| going to the Holmes residence murdered
his wife and Holmes, and then committed
/ suicide.
There seems to be belief in certain cir
| cles that the Stanley African expedition
/ for the relief of Emin Pasha is really an
| expedition for the seizure, for the benefit
| of England, of the North Central provinces
which were annexed to Egypt in 1874.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland Thurs
/ day celebrated the first anniversary of
their wedding by going fishing on Saranac
Lake. They will spend several days at
Albany on their return to Washington, the
| guests of Governor Hill.
| Several well-Known fire Insurance COM
| psnies are said to be seriously embarrassed,
| owing to the heavy losses sustained by
recent fires in New York. Among those
| mentioned are the Phoenix of London and
the Fire Association of New York.
| The fish and store-boat of Henry Muer,
/ FIVE miles above the mouth of the Wabash
i River, in Illinois, last Saturday was caught
Il IN wh1rlwlnd and wrecked, drowning
James Smith, nineteen years of age; q
daughter of Henry Muer, aged six years,
and a child of John Muer, aged one year.
| According to the Moscow Gazette, a syn
dictate of European bankers, headed by the
Rothschilds, has agreed to take the AZ per
| cent. Russian securities into which the out
standing per cents are to be funded. The
Rothschilds have. for the last. en- years, re-
fused to have any dealings with the Rus.
sian Government.
Grain and provision interests were fa-
vored with higher prices Friday in Chi
cago. In wheat the advance established
amounted to H@% cents, in corn to u
cent, in lard to 121z(915 cents, and in short
ribs TO 271z@32% cents. June wheat closed
at 90H cents. For July corn the final quo
tation was 39% cents, for July lard 500,
and for July short ribs $7.57H.
Robert G. Hall, poet and actor o1Phila-
delphia, Friday shot and killed Mrs.
| Lillian Rivers, with whom he had been
living in Illicit relations for some time,